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Hogarth: London Voices, London Lives
Capital images, from The Rake's Progress to the city today
BACK ON THE WALL: The Tavern Scene from A Rake's Progress (detail), from between 1732 and 1735
[Sir John Soane’s Museum]
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JUST over two centuries ago, the wife of neoclassical architect Sir John Soane purchased A Rake’s Progress by William Hogarth, the master printmaker and satirist, for the newly built Pitzhanger Manor in west London.
The series of eight works was removed from the building when Soane sold it and is now in the permanent collection of the Sir John Soane's Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields, which has lent the works for this exhibition.
Hogarth’s satire of morals and manners will again hang on the walls of the recently refurbished Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery as the centrepiece of an exhibition that reflects voices and issues in London today, a series of contemporary works exploring a broader view of society.
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